Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-06-13
GEORGE ONOBRIBN.
THAT UNION SQUARE INCIDENT.


NLw YORK, June 1.-THE entire first
page of Henry Georges paper, the Stand
ard, is taken up with Mr.. Georges opinion
ofthe Union Square incident" of Saturday
night last. 1t is headed William
OBrien." After asserting that the men
who side with John McCracken did
right in not yielding to the demands" of
O'Brien, he says:
mo trap whatever was was set for
Mr.. OBrien. and no attempt whatever
was made to get him to take sides in
American politics. He came to America
to denounce an Irish landlord for his con-
duct as a landlord. He was received with
open arms by American landlords and the
defenders of American landlords, who
dined him and wined him and
gave him public ovatiOns, with the trans
parent purpose of making themselves solid
with the Irish vote He has been flat
tered and liOnized by 4 press that has
nothing but Misrepresentation and abuse
for those who impeach in America the very
same system which these papers so glibly
condemn in Ireland, and has received the
public approval of the same Archbishop
who is exerting all his power to prosecute
unto ecclesiastical death the American
priest who incurred the unrelenting enmi-
ty of the Italian Propaganda by the brave
words said in favor of the Irish revolution
in Ireland's darkest hour.
The following extracts are taken here
and there from Mr.. Georges article:
1T is hard to regard
Mr.. O'BRIEN'S OBJECTION
to Mr.. McMackin otherwise than as a
mere subterfuge. If Mr.. MCMackin had
been known because he only had presided
at a lecture by Mr.. lyman there might
have been some treason in Mr.. O'Brien's
objection, though even then it Is hard for
an American citizen to understand the
abject frame of mind which would lead an
Irish patriot to declare that his presence
on New York platform with any one
whom the wOrkingmen of New York had
selected as their presiding officer would
destroy Mr.. Parnell, wreck the Irish
movement and cast to the winds the hopes
of the Irish people for this generation! II
Mr.. Parnell is 80 easily destroyed and the
Irish movement of such delicate stutf as
this had it not better be kept in a band
box marked Truly British and no one
suffered to approach it unless labelled
Approved by the London Times.
But Mr..
MCMACKIN'S TITLE To DISTINCTION
is not that he presided at Mr. Tynan's
lecture. Mr.. McMackin is known to thou
sands and thousands who never heard of
lyman; and to thousands and thousands
who, though they may have heard lyman 5
name, have no clear idea OF any connec-
ton of his with Irish physical force move
ments,' or that he had any connection at
all. But the people OF New York do
know Mr.. McNIackin. He has been Sc
lected by the men who proposed to receive
Mr.. O'Brien on Saturday night as their
representative and presiding officer on far
more important occasions than even the
reception of an Irish member of the
British Parliament. John McMaCkin hap
pened to he born in Ireland, and was IN
Fenian times n Fenian. But he is not
dynamiter, nor an advocate of violence. As
a matter of fact he presided at the lyman
lecture simply because he was Strenuously
urged to do so by some Of Mr.. O'Brien'S
friends rs a matter of charity to man who
had been left stranded in New York WITH
family OF nine children, and in his remarks
there he took pains to Ell ,.hasize his own
position aud to state that he only presided as
IA matter of fair play. Yet Mr.. OBrien
wanted the wOrkingmen of New York to
boycott NJ. McMackin for this!'
''The utter
INSINCERTTY OF MR.. O'BRIEN'S PLEA
that for him to 90 upon a platform with the
man who had presided at lecture by Mr..
| lyman, would destroy Mr. PLrnell, wreck
| the Irish movement and cast to the winds
the hopes OF the Irish people, is proved by
the fact that ut Boston he did 90 on the
platform with q gentleman, Mr.. John
Boyle O'Reilly, who recently presided at a
| lecture of this same lyman. And 1t
is further to he observed that be-
tween the time when he refused
to attend the labor demonstration and
the time when he took the occasion OF
the Hoffman House Banquet to attack MIR.
McMackin he accepted the invitation and
escort TO the Press Club of Patrick Ford,
the editor and Austin f. Ford, Captain
| Edward O'Meagher Condor and David
IIcaly, 81 the staff of the Irish WorH. How
grateful this will he to the London Time
is shown by the cable dispatch that the
| Times on Tuesday morning, in continue
tiOn of it's articles on 'ParnelliSm and
Crime, published Il facsimile of page OF
the Irish World and the greater portion OF
an address by Patrick Ford.
THE real truth of the matter is, evil
IDENTITY, that Mr.. OBrien did not want Il
identity himself OF the Parliamentary par
ty with the principle of the land for thu
people, which Mr.. McMackin does repre-
sent. He was willing to accept an Ova
ton from the workiDgmen OF New York
provided it should appear to be merely ;
tribute to himself TO what he calls hi
mission and to the picayune land policy
of the Parliamentary party; but he wa
not willing to accept any demonstration
which would displease the Saviors of sOci
etv who have clustered round him in tn
United States or would give any color t,
the assumption that the Irish cause doe
involve universal principle"
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